Duplicate network name

give us some more details....other machines....protocols used etc etc

Go to the command prompt type nbtstat -n this will give the name that is in conflict. Type nbtstat /? for other command switches to resolve name resolution problems. Most likely what happened is that someone has used the same computer name previously.

The windows 2000 handles the domain (as of saturday, but the error occurred before the upgrade). There are 2 NT4 servers in the domain. Protocol used is TCPIP.

There are several possible reasons why this error message may be generated:

There is a computer on the network with the same name.

Identical user name logged on to multiple computers.

Inactive or duplicate names in the WINS database.Corruption in the DHCP database.

Conflicting network adapters in a multihomed computer.

IPCONFIG /ALL returns incorrect host name.

You may find troubleshooting inforamtion on the fiollowing article (please make sure that no space is inserted in the URL string),

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/7/40.ASP

just another thought to add to the previous answers. Reboot any switches or routers that you have. I ran into an issue with a Nortel switch that kept the computer names in cache and caused conflicts with the PDC whenever rebboted. Just a thought.

Shutdown all bdc, then boot up pdc and after pdc is booted, boot all bdcs. Just a quick fix to get you running again.

hi,
we had the same error on our nt4 network.
after we cleared the wins databases from
our primary and secondary wins server the
problem was solved.

sven

Just adding on to the posts.....

Do you have two nics in your machine? You may have NetBIOS bound to both nics.

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I deleted the server's static node from the WINS database. Thanks for your help.